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Should he tell all he knew to Avice Harborough? That question remained unanswered, and Brereton remained silent, until he and Avice had reached the top of the path and had come out on the edge of the wide stretch of moorland above the little town.
That day we trended the said land about 9. or 10. leagues, hoping to finde some good harborough, but it was not possible: for as I haue said already, it is a very low land, and enuironed round about with great shelues.
"There is as much mystery about that as about Harborough." "All mystery, sir!" agreed Northrop. "It's odd I came through them woods on the Shawl there about a quarter to ten last night: I'd been across to the other side to see a man of mine that's poorly in bed.
Lord Mohunsleigh said that he would be very pleased, but he couldn't tell at all whether his friend went in for that sort of thing had an idea he didn't, and rather fought shy of society shows, though, of course, Harborough was a gentleman, and all that. "Anyhow, you send him the card, and write him a line saying we should like to meet him," persisted Mrs. Ess Kay.
It was likely also, that they might finde some fitte harborough thereabouts, which might bee behoouefull for them against another time.
The riding that graces the Shires, that makes Tedworth and Pytchley, the Duke's and the Fitzwilliam's, household words and "names beloved" that fills Melton and Market Harborough, and makes the best flirts of the ballroom gallop fifteen miles to covert, careless of hail or rain, mire or slush, mist or cold, so long as it is a fine scenting wind is the same riding that sent the Six Hundred down in to the blaze of the Muscovite guns; that in our fathers' days gave to Grant's Hussars their swoop, like eagles, on to the rearguard at Morales, and that, in the grand old East and the rich trackless West, makes exiled campaigners with high English names seek and win an aristeia of their own at the head of their wild Irregular Horse, who would charge hell itself at their bidding.
Brereton read this extraordinary communication through three times; then he replaced letter and bank-notes in the envelope, put the envelope in an inner pocket, left the house, and walking across to the Northrop villa, asked to see Avice Harborough. Avice came to him in Mrs. Northrop's drawing-room, and Brereton glancing keenly at her as she entered saw that she was looking worn and pale.
Ess Kay and my brother. "By Jove, Harborough!" said Stan. "It is you, isn't it? Surely it isn't your double?" "Harborough it is," said Jim, while I listened, dumb with wonder. "How are you, Duke? I was rather expecting you might turn up; but I cabled to you last night to Boodles', and wrote you this morning on the chance you hadn't started." "Well, I'm blowed," remarked Stan, most inelegantly.
But because they could see no Shippe, nor likelihood of harborough within fiue or sixe leagues about, and knewe that none of our men were woont to frequent those partes, they could not tell what to iudge thereof, but imagined that some of the ships being carried so high with the storme and mistes, had made shipwracke amongst the yce or the broken Islands there, and were spoyled by the countrey people, who might vse the sundry coloured flagge for a policie, to bring them likewise within their danger.
"No that's not at all likely," answered Brereton. "There's some very strange mystery about that man, and I'll have to get at the truth of it in spite of his determined reticence! Bent! I'm going to see this thing right through! The Norcaster Assizes will be on next month, and of course Harborough will be brought up then.
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